Nobody wants 'em Gnomes

[Krug]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/29/1067233209148.html

Point of gnome return
October 29, 2003 - 9:59AM

A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes after a "gnome return day" - a fresh bid to trace their owners - failed.

Only a trickle of people showed up for yesterday's "gnome return day" at the police station in Saint-Die-des-Vosges, near the eastern city of Strasbourg, and only one person was reunited with their stolen gnome, police said.

Some 75 kidnapped gnomes were recovered in 2001 after a group called the Garden Gnome Liberation Front released them, leaving them on the steps of the Saint-Die-des-Vosges cathedral.

Police are yet to reunite 43 of the gnomes with their owners.

"In wanting to set them free, the Liberation Front has virtually imprisoned them," policeman Sylvain Brucker said, adding that the local prosecutor could decide to sell the kitsch garden ornaments in a police auction.

"Perhaps there are people with gardens who would like to adopt them," he said.

 

[Ashrum the Black]

(sigh) This just proves the French have too much time on their hands.

 

[alsih2o]

"Some 75 kidnapped gnomes were recovered in 2001 after a group called the Garden Gnome Liberation Front released them, leaving them on the steps of the Saint-Die-des-Vosges cathedral."

hmmm. makes me wonder what the world record is for abandoned gnomes ina public place.


hmmm, indeed....

 

[John Crichton]

Man, some folks just don't know what to do with their free time...

 

[Believer]

I wish I had thought of that first....

 

[Terraism]

Shouldn't that be "Gnobody wants 'em gnomes?"

[Retreats before being struck by a large hammer.]

 

[Wombat]

The Garden Gnome Liberation Front (FLNJ) has been in existence since the mid-1980s, if I remember correctly.

It goes in and out of favour, depending on the time

Personally, I love these guys!

Vive le FLNJ!

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

My marching band--the Marching Illini, the nation's finest college marching band, that is--has a lucky garden gnome named Metro.

Metro Gnome

har har!

(No, I'm really not kidding, either)

 

[Greatwyrm]

My marching band--the Marching Illini,...

U of I, huh? Uumgawa!

 

[Angcuru]

Gnobody gnows the trouble I've seen.....
Gnobody gnows my sorrow.....